TechFlow reports that on November 15, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, during an exclusive interview with Foresight News in Chiang Mai, Thailand, shared his views on the competitive relationship between Solana and Ethereum. He pointed out that Solana is more centralized than Ethereum on multiple levels: higher difficulty for running nodes, a more centralized PoS mechanism, and a greater number of projects directly relying on support from the Solana Foundation.
Vitalik emphasized a fundamental difference in market positioning between Ethereum and Solana. Solana focuses more on partnering with large enterprises to develop DePIN projects—applications that inherently require less decentralization. In contrast, Ethereum is dedicated to building a decentralized, neutral, and secure base layer, achieving a degree of decentralization even surpassing that of Bitcoin.
Regarding performance issues, Vitalik stated, "If you want a blockchain capable of 100 TPS, Ethereum's L1 will never meet that demand. You have only two options: either move to other high-performance blockchains, or build on Ethereum's L2 solutions such as Arbitrum, Base, and MegaETH." He also noted significant progress made by Ethereum in client diversity and censorship resistance—no single client now exceeds 52% network share, and the rate of suspicious transaction censorship has dropped from 80% to between 20% and 50%.
